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View synonyms for reliever

reliever

[ ri-lee-ver ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that relieves.
  2. Baseball. relief pitcher.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of reliever1

First recorded in 1475–85; relieve, -er 1

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Example Sentences

By 2001, sales of the drug exceeded $1 billion, making Oxy the bestselling nongeneric narcotic pain reliever in the country.

They were sleeping, arms about each other, warm in the arms of Death, the kindly Reliever of Pain.

"No alms will be given to-day," said the Reliever-of-Headaches.

This Reliever then came up to the women and asked them how they did.

Chloral hydrate not only possesses these qualities, but it also is an antiferment and a pain reliever.

Reliever, a coat worn in turn by any party of poor devils whose wardrobes are in pawn.

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relieve oneselfrelieve someone of